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  • Collection: The 2018 Chicago Hotel Strike

A GoFundMe page had been created for support of the strike.

A Facebook page titled "Chicago Hotel Strike Solidarity Campaign" was created in support of the strike and the participants. It posted photographs and information about the development of the movement

Repast: Dining Out at the Dawn of the New American Century, 1900-1910 focuses mainly on restaurants in the United States, and not hotels, but in the footnotes to one of the chapters, the strikes of the 1890s to the 1900s are mentioned as spreading…

YouTube video live from CBS Chicago summarizing the purposes and goals of the strikers, with short interviews given by several hotel workers

This article from Thinkprogress.org reveals that, after some time passed from the beginning of the strike, the hotels themselves declared that they need more time to negotiate the contract to the satisfaction of the strikers.

A digital journalist for ABC7 covered live the march of the hotel workers down Magnificent Mile in downtown Chicago. The tweets include short video clips of the workers' march and the photograph of the Cook Country Board President Toni Preckwinkle

A photograph of a memorial stone plaque downtown that commemorates the formation of UNITE HERE (labor union) in 2004. Instagram user A. J. Stanford took a picture of the important plaque while on strike herself

The Midwest LGBTQ Health Symposium was scheduled to take place at the Hyatt Hotel, but the event was moved to the Malcolm X college in solidarity with the strikers

A photograph posted on Facebook. The photograph features a group of nurses who are holding "Nurses Support Striking Hotel Workers" signs

A Facebook advertisement for an event in downtown Chicago, next to the Hilton Hotel. Citizen Action Illinois announced that they will be joining the strikers in their picket instead of organizing their customary annual fundraiser
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